Professional Membership
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and abide by its ethical framework.
experience
Supporting children and families
Supporting children and families
Supporting children and families
Over the last 17 years, my work has focused on making connections and building relationships. Supporting children and families through my work in schools started me on my path towards becoming a counsellor. Although my counselling practice now focusses on adults over 18, my experience with children and families has given me an insight int
Over the last 17 years, my work has focused on making connections and building relationships. Supporting children and families through my work in schools started me on my path towards becoming a counsellor. Although my counselling practice now focusses on adults over 18, my experience with children and families has given me an insight into attachment styles, neurodiversity, family dynamics and developmental issues. My experience working with children adds to my psychodynamic work, in which I help clients to explore the ways in which their childhood experiences built their expectations of the world around them and formed their self-concept.
Through both my professional work and my own journey through personal therapy, I have experienced how healing the therapeutic relationship can be.
Basecamp Counselling Service
Supporting children and families
Supporting children and families
I worked as a counsellor with the Basecamp Counselling Service for two years, supporting clients through the covid pandemic. Sometimes things happen which have a huge impact on our lives; I aim to provide a space where clients can explore the often overwhelming feelings that come up in response. At times, life-events – or, in the example
I worked as a counsellor with the Basecamp Counselling Service for two years, supporting clients through the covid pandemic. Sometimes things happen which have a huge impact on our lives; I aim to provide a space where clients can explore the often overwhelming feelings that come up in response. At times, life-events – or, in the example of covid, collective trauma – can make it harder to tolerate emotions which we felt we could previously contain, bringing up things which we thought we could just ‘put out of mind’. I help clients to explore these underlying emotions, looking at how past experiences can impact the way clients feel in the present. I have experience working with:
- Anxiety
- Anger
- Low self-worth
- Self-criticism
- Relationships
- Abuse
- Guilt and shame
- Suicidal thoughts
- Trauma
- Addiction
- Sexual shame
- Spirituality and religion
Bristol Mind LGBTQ+ Counselling
Supporting children and families
Bristol Mind LGBTQ+ Counselling
Through my experience as a counsellor at Bristol Mind’s LGBTQ+ counselling service, I have worked with a wide range of issues around gender and sexual relationship diversity. Whilst these may or may not be the focus of our work together, I provide a space where clients can consider how these aspects of identity affect their wider lives –
Through my experience as a counsellor at Bristol Mind’s LGBTQ+ counselling service, I have worked with a wide range of issues around gender and sexual relationship diversity. Whilst these may or may not be the focus of our work together, I provide a space where clients can consider how these aspects of identity affect their wider lives – and how the social context we live in impacts their sense of self. I have experience working with:
- Exploring sexuality
- Coming out
- Internalised homophobia
- Being a gay parent
- Polyamory
- Experience of discrimination and microaggressions targeting sexuality and gender
- Exploring gender identity and expression
- Gender dysphoria
- Experience of being misgendered
- Social transitioning
- Feeling unseen
- Being ‘othered’